“We rub the darkness from our eyes,
And face our thousand devious secret mornings...
And do not see how the pale mist, slowly ascending,
Shaped by the sun, shines like a white-robed dreamer
Compassionate over our towers bending.”

—  Conrad Aiken

The House of Dust (1916 - 1917)

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American novelist and poet 1889–1973

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